Fire Under Heaven & Dillon's Promise

by Cheryl Reavis

Fire Under Heaven In twenty-six days of terror overseas, tourist Annemarie Worth and Marine seargeant David Gannon learned all there was to know about each other. But that's all over... or is it? Dillon's Promise Outraged at the secret of his daughter's birth and haunted by a deathbed promise, Dillon Cameron returns to his Orkney Island homeland.

372 pages, Paperback

First published June 14, 2000

About the author

AKA Cinda Richards

Former public health nurse, now award-winning romance novelist, Cheryl Reavis, describes herself as a "late bloomer." Her Silhouette Special Edition™, A CRIME OF THE HEART, reached millions of readers in Good Housekeeping magazine and won the Romance Writers of America's coveted RITA award the year it was published. She has also won the RITA award for her Harlequin-Silhouette novels, PATRICK GALLAGHER'S WIDOW, THE PRISONER, and THE BRIDE FAIR. BLACKBERRY WINTER, THE BARTERED BRIDE and a Berkley novel, PROMISE ME A RAINBOW, have been RITA award finalists. She has received numerous awards from Romantic Times magazine.

Her award-winning literary short stories have appeared in The Crescent Review, The Bad Apple, The Mosaic, The Sanskrit, Laurels, The Emrys Journal and Writer's Choice.

Publishers Weekly described her Berkley single-title novel, PROMISE ME A RAINBOW, as "...an example of delicately crafted, eminently satisfying romantic fiction."

Reviews

[Tonileg · Rating 3 out of 5]

This starts out innocent enough with Miss Annemarie Worth arriving in the middle east to help shuttle her brother's daughters back to America. She also brought a tin filled with chocolate chip cookies to a friend of a friend's brother Sargent David Gannon at the Embassy.
Like I said, this starts out sweet and innocent with well written prose about an American woman discovering the insecurity and danger in the middle east.
There were lots of slow build like in On the Island although this story seemed shorter. There were great descriptions without too much gore of the hostage situation, we only find out it is for 26 days after they are freed. David Gannon is most definitely a hero, even before the dangerous situation he was a hero to the little kids at the American hospital. I really fell in love with this guy and I would never become a camp follower (as described in the story), but for the kind of love that the H/h find, it is worth the risk and the change of lifestyle.
There is some sexy scenes at the end of the story, but they blended in so well that I hardly even noticed. This is a romance/love story and nothing smutty about it, although this is not for under 16s IMO.
136 pages and free for kindle in early May 2012.
3 stars!